It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head
like an animal. It was a vigorous brown.
I was very fond of it as a child. I tho
ught that it liked me back.' Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrate
d by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door
to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he kille
d himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace he spends the night hangi
ng by the neck in her shower, to help himself think.
